Sarah Fielding was an English author and sister of the playwright, novelist and magistrate Henry Fielding.
13 Facts About Sarah Fielding
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Sarah Fielding wrote The Governess, or The Little Female Academy, thought to be the first novel in English aimed expressly at children.
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Sarah Fielding was born at East Stour, Dorset in 1710 to Edmund Feilding [sic] and his wife Sarah, nee Gould, after Henry and Ursula; her younger siblings were Anne, Beatrice, and Edmund.
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Sir Henry and Lady Sarah Gould had fallen out with Edmund before the death of the children's mother.
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Lady Gould was highly displeased with Edmund's second marriage, and Anne Sarah Fielding was the subject of much anti-Catholic sentiment from the elder generation of the family.
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Sarah Fielding eventually won, leaving the children unable to see their father for some years.
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Sarah Fielding turned to writing to make a living, beginning while she lived with her brother and acted as his housekeeper.
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In 1742, Henry Fielding published Joseph Andrews, and Sarah Fielding is often credited with having written the letter from Leonora to Horatio.
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In 1744, Sarah Fielding published a novel, The Adventures of David Simple in Search of a Faithful Friend.
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The novel was sufficiently popular that Sarah Fielding wrote Familiar Letters between the Principal Characters in David Simple as an epistolary furtherance to the novel in 1747.
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Sarah Fielding finds happiness in marriage and a rural, bucolic life, away from the corruptions of the city.
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Sarah Fielding's sisters died between 1750 and 1751 and Henry in 1754.
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Sarah Fielding retired from London and moved to a small house just outside Bath.